Simon Young Adventure

I am quietly starting to migrate over to blue sky to escape some of the robots. Please feel free to follow me over on Sah-young.Bsky.social

@fellrunningguid Are you permanently back in X, as I had swapped over to Bluesky to follow you….

Map Reading Task 315 Identify the 4 features highlighted in yellow. Where do you think the photo was taken from? (Patreon subscribers will receive task and video answer this evening) #mapreading #eryri #snowdonia

@fleurrbie I highly recommend the ring of Steall - a really ridgy day! Plus the fun of the cable “bridge”

Back out on Saturday into Glen Nevis for more beautiful mountains… What a dramatic summit! Absolutely loved Stob Ban😍 Clag back in again for Mullach Nan Coirean but what a Fabby day. These ridgy Mamores are so nice ♥️🏔️🏔️👍🏻♥️

Sounds just like a normal “Residential” down at the Lake

Are you passionate about something? Do you know something inside out where others barely give it a glance? Everyone's a geek about something. And that's wonderful.

@fellrunningguid Oooh Will do - nothing yet Will check out the” other” platforms Cheers

@CranOutdoorEd P.S. check your emails regarding Patreon spot prize 😀

Map Reading Task is over on my Facebook page.

Demise of the Pasterze (AT) icefall over the last 8 years! 🔥 This south-facing icefall was the last to feed the valley tongue, and it will be cut off anytime soon, likely next summer, leaving a dead ice body below 🧊📈 Source @GeoSphere_AT

Jokes That Only Geologists Will Fully Understand 😀😎😀 Geology Giggles: Show Us Your Rock-Solid Jokes! In The comments 🪨

The earliest record for all snow in Scotland disappearing is 23rd August, which happened in 2003. If significant falls of fresh snow do not occur in the next four weeks or so then that early date will be trounced this summer. I have never seen the hills so denuded of snow in mid March. 📷 SAIS Lochaber - lochaberblog.sais.gov.uk/2025/03/carn-b…

Regular reminder:

Do you know the 4Ts of #type1diabetes? They are: 🚽 Toilet (needing a wee more) 🚰 Thirsty 💤 Tired ⬇️ Thinner If you’re already familiar with the 4Ts, will you share this post to make sure more people know the signs of type 1 diabetes?

March 9, 1847, Mary Anning died #OTD. Self-taught fossil collector from Lyme Regis, she discovered complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurii, Plesiosaurus & Dimorphodon, pioneering the study of coprolites - or fossilized poo - & molluscs lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.11…

Today's whiskey trivia: The world's four best-seeling whiskies all come from... ...India! Source: buff.ly/NrKVtWX

@simongerman600 I had always thought that Florence Nightingale, of lamp fame, was credited with the invention of the Pie 🥧chart Every day is a school day…..

The earliest pie chart is credited to William Playfair's “Statistical Breviary” (1801). Shown are the proportions of the Turkish Empire located in Asia, Europe and Africa. Such an obvious way of displaying data but it’s only 220 years old! Wikipedia: buff.ly/jNXtJlu

So sad A true gentleman. An infectious enthusiast He always had time to pass on friendly advice, or just chat when I had the privilege of meeting him whilst working as a Post Grad / Post Doc at the Natural History Museum RIP

March 7, 1785, Scottish farmer & naturalist James Hutton presents his full theory of the Earth at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. youtube.com/watch?v=o-bPC5…

Dave’s Thursday Nav Problem We are hiding 🫣behind the cairn on Fell end, looking NW across Slei Gill up broad reentrant to Low Moor, marking change from improved to unimproved land 🔴 is the 1st obvious reentrant downstream from the bend in the gill. Wall crosses higher up

@theiaincameron Crianlarich?

This one's got me stumped. An old railway station, almost certainly in the Highlands. First thought was Strathyre or Dunkeld, but neither of them fit. Anyone?

their model was based on unpublished crystallographic data by British biochemist Rosalind Franklin, who was credited only a decade later. Franklin worked also on modern classification of coal types and carbon-minerals